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Partnership adds life skills class for students on autism spectrum

A partnership between Texas Woman's University and the 29 Acres Transition Academy has led to a life skills class at TWU for students on the autism spectrum. This fall there are 24 academy students on the TWU campus as non-degree seeking students. 

Space Design team wins NASA-sponsored challenge for fourth time

Texas Woman’s University undergraduate kinesiology students focused on what they knew best — the scientific study of human body movement — and took the top overall prize at a NASA-sponsored design competition, marking the fourth time a TWU team won first-place honors in the statewide challenge.

In the News: Mindy Patterson

 Mindy Patterson, PhD, an associate professor in the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences was mentioned in a Nov. 8 New York Times article “Pasta and Rice May Be Healthier as Leftovers.” 

PT researchers studying treatments for post-stroke fatigue

Associate Professor Hui-Ting Goh and Professor Emeritus Elaine Jackson, both from the School of Physical Therapy at the Dallas Center, have been awarded a $372,870 three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund their project, "Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Post-Stroke Fatigue." 

TWU breaks ground on health facility, launches campaign

Texas Woman’s University broke ground on a $107 million, state-of-the-art health sciences center that will expand programming and training for students seeking health-related careers, increase the number of professionals in high-demand health fields and extend critical health services to rural, underserved areas of North Texas.